Everything bad is good and everything good is bad

So recently I’ve begun to wonder if I have moral compass. You know that little thing inside that steers you away from “bad” things. What is bad anyway, really. People make up most of this stuff anyway and we all know how right people get things. Yeah I’ve looked at people of wal-mart and the attached sites. I don’t think I’m alone with the whole what is good and what is bad question. Then again I’m fairly certain that I probably have something steering me because I’m not in jail and no one has tried to kill me recently But that might change after today. Then some other recent things I‘ll think damn where did that come from.

So in case you are lost already, which given my style is possible, I probably have a moral compass but I’m pretty sure my compass doesn’t point to the same place as other peoples.
Well all those pesky little rules really just don’t make much sense to me. They are really just annoying. I won’t get into which of these little rules they are because some of them are really rather “big” rules for other people.

Now I’m not talking about the really big ones like killing and kidnapping and stuff like that, but that list of seven. Really are those really all that bad? I mean yeah in some cases sure but always? Ok I’ll give you greed, greed is always bad but the other six? Lust, sloth, gluttony, envy, wrath and pride. Just incase you didn’t know them. Then there are some of those other ones on the lost tablets. I’m not typing them all out, because well it’s a lot of work. See sloth it works, now you don’t have to read them either. I’m really looking out for you here too. It’s a win, win. But come on all of them? There are a lot of things we say are bad but are they really. Like what you ask?

Well how about this, I mean really why does there have to be an emotional attachment to (fill in the blank). It just makes it all complicated. Yes I’m sure adding all the emotional stuff to it makes it a good thing, well it is a good thing with all that stuff added in, really? Can’t it just be a good thing without all the mess? I mean after if the emotional bit gets all banged up doesn’t it suck more later than without all that mess? See it can be good with or without. I know you are really beginning to think I’m a bad person. I’m not a bad person I have just done questionable things and I’m not even sure questionable is the right word. I’ve done things. Most of it I’m ok with others maybe not so much. I know that everyone else there me was fine with them too. I’m not blathering about it here but if you pour enough bourbon in my I’ll probably tell you. Yeah it is like truth serum. Remind me to buy up all the bourbon when I win the lottery so it can’t be used against me.

Then I’ll have thoughts that hey you know life would just be easier if people just did things the way I wanted them to do them.

Like I really think that my friend Hoover should get a PS3 so we can play MAG together. Or another friend who I think should take fashion advise from me even thought I really don’t have much fashion sense. The list goes on.

Sure everyone will think this sort of stuff I really say it out load.

Yes that doesn’t really have much to do with my malfunctioning moral compass but it does. Those are just on the minor end of the scale of things the bigger stuff really does require bourbon to get it out in the open.

So I’m sober a lot of the time too keep my mouth shut about my “questionable” thoughts. Then I’ll turn around and I have a thought that just doesn’t belong. Like recently I’ve found out that my favorite blogger has recently lost everything she owns in a fire. I mean everything. I want to help. I mean really sincerely want to help, with nothing in it for me. Right, I know. I mean I don’t even know this person at all except for her words. Which by the way are amazing. What I know about her is from what she blogs about her life and her thoughts and the way she writes, I find myself lost in the world she spins through her words. I’m standing in the same pub at the corner table having a beer or standing in the shop where she works as I read about her life. I think, man if I could write just half as good as her I would happy. The point is that I want to help this person I only know from the stuff she puts on line and a few personal e-mails exchanged years ago. I doubt she even remembers that we exchanged a few e-mails. Which goes against the other stuff in my head.

Then I’ll have thoughts about, insert annoying social conformity ritual, and I don’t care a hoot about it. Not even a little bit. I really think my alignment is lawful evil, yes I just referenced dungeons and dragons. But really some rules apply others are just annoying. I just get to decide which ones are annoying, well mostly you can pick a few. But not too many.

Maybe I’m not nearly as bad as I think I am or used to be. Which way is it supposed to point anyway.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow, Cast thing and missions are coming soon. (nod) Yup, yup, yup (ala duckie)

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Listening to: Guardian Angel - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

It's really about cake... or the hokey pokey...nope it's neither

I was reading recipes earlier and I saw one called better than sex cake. I’ve actually seen this one before but never really gave it much thought. However that name is a lie, an out and out a bold faced lie to call any cake better than sex. As you may have guessed I gave this some thought today. And it wasn’t the most bizarre thought I had today. Trust me there, you really don’t want to know.

Back to the cake thing, there are several reasons that this is a lie.

One. I’ve had some pretty freaking good cake, cake that you suck the fork to get all the cake off of it and press the crumbs together for just one more bite because the cake is that good. However as good as that cake was, I’ve never really tasted a cake that was better than sex, even the really bad sex was still better than the best cake I’ve ever had. Well maybe not… nope the worst sex was still better than the cake. No I’m not going to tell you about it, this is about cake not sex.

Two. If any food not just a cake were really better than sex then that food would be the only food people on the planet would ever eat. As there are lots of food which are not cake I’m going to stay with the idea that no cake is better than sex. No food is better than sex. Hell there isn’t even just one kind of cake. No cake is better than sex.

Two point five. If you say the icing is better than sex, well someone should just slap you. Because icing isn’t cake it’s sugar and sugar and more sugar and a little bit of colored water. Sugar isn’t sex and it certainly isn’t better than sex. Sex won’t give you cavities but icing might. And pixies sticks will just choke you and make you all twitchy. And that’s no fun.

Three. You shouldn’t eat cake any more times in a day than you have sex. In fact if you would like to keep having sex then you should only eat cake about half the number of times you have sex in a day. If you don’t have sex, then you get no cake. If you have sex just once, no cake. Twice on the sex, once on the cake. Well not on the cake because that would be … well not really good for the cake… it may not be bad for the sex.

Four. You really shouldn’t have sex on a cake that is just really messy. Yeah messy is the reason you shouldn’t do that. However why do partially clothed people pop out of cakes? Hmm… still not the strange thought of the day or about things you might eat. Yeah I know you’re kind of scared to ask now, still not going to go there.

No it wasn’t about sex and food … well not completely unrelated… but it wasn’t about sex and food for sure. It wasn’t even about food just things … that you… well might eat but really probably shouldn’t. Yup we’ll leave it at that.

Back to the point, no cake is better than sex and if you think that one is well you probably aren’t really having enough sex or you aren’t doing it correctly. Yeah I’m think that must be it. So put the cake down and practice the sex stuff and if you practice twice you can have the cake later. However, if you are having sex twice a day do you really have the energy for cake?

Five why would you name a cake better than sex? Because if you are thinking about cake do you really want to be thinking about sex? I mean yes people say mmm while having cake. Some people say it a lot while eating cake. However, mmm only gets said at the beginning of sex and it usually ends with the screaming the name of some higher power and grabbing handfuls of mattress. Cake doesn’t end like that at all. Well unless you are doing it on the cake but that is more of the end of the cake than having cake ending that way.

So in conclusion, cake is good but it isn’t better than sex. Not even cupcakes. No don’t even go there. I said no.


That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Listening to: Counting Crows

Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

Weather Man MIB

Nothing like a winter weather report to make people all goofy. Granted one thing that we as the major parasite on the planet can’t seem to get a good hold on, is the weather. We do our best to best mother nature but if she wants to do you in, well pack your bags because you are done. She’s a mean girl, well maybe even the original mean girl.



We guess and mostly we are correct in our guesses but then she throws the curve ball and we miss. However will we admit that really we just don’t have a clue what is going on with the weather really. No, because we have the thumb. Most people have it firmly planted … well you know where.



As far as the weather goes, I like the saying, “we’ll whether the weather whatever the weather, whether we like the weather or not.” Say that five times fast. I don’t know who said it first but I know it wasn’t me.



Snow does seem to cause lots of havoc or does it? Snow is just snow. We cause our own havoc when you think about it.

I know for myself I don’t have the same tires that I would have living in a snowier area. Why? Because it doesn’t snow that much here and I don’t need to replace my tires yet. I will when I have to and if I lived in the snowier areas I would have by now. However I know that because of my choice not to replace my tires its not safe for me to drive in snow when it does snow, even if I know how to drive in it.



Now there are people here who have no clue how to drive in snow, not because they are bad drivers but mainly it is because they just don’t know how and haven’t had to do it. I would be willing to bet the nickel that their cars are largely like mine and do not have the appropriate tires and equipment to maneuver well in the snow. Why? Well because it doesn’t happen here that much and it costs a lot to replace tires. Then they go out and wreck and then they are nervous afterward and overreact in the snow. We make the havoc and chaos not mother nature. Because we don’t respect her.



The snow also causes problems in that it takes up space because we don’t like it where it decides to fall all inconsiderate of our roads and parking lots. So we move it around and then discover that there isn’t any place to put the snow when it comes. We are unwilling to yield on that whole, we don’t want it on the street but where do you put it when you get a lot. There just isn’t any place to put it. Maybe we can teach the snow just to fall on ski areas and other such places that want the snow. Dear Mother Nature, do you think…



You know that memo may not be a really good idea... so yeah... ah...



Back in the day people didn’t freak out about snow, maybe because they didn’t have as far to go, maybe because their cars weren’t made of plastic and fiberglass, maybe because they had more sense, perhaps when it did snow they decided that they really didn’t need to go anywhere so they stayed put and enjoyed the peace that seems to blanket the world when it snows. Ever notice how quiet the world sounds when it snows?



However now, people get all discombobulated about the snow. It’s not like the next ice age is going to start today… wait what … it is? Really? Ah… color me embarrassed there are some guys standing here now saying that I should just stop talking about the ice age now and move on to something else.



So I was in court yesterday for a long time, a really long time. Not for me, but for work, so that means I can’t tell you why I was there or for what or other people in suits will say I need to stop talking about what it is I’m talking about. And you thought I was going to say something a smart ass would say like or I’d have to kill you. Nope most likely I would be yet another person fired from their job for posting crap about work online. However, I did get a chance to people watch which is always fun. Whenever I go to court I will think I’ve seen it all but the next time I go there is usually something new which will make me shake my head.

　

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow



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Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

is that near a liqor store?

After I miss a few days of writing on line I really do begin to miss it. I’m not sure that anyone who reads actually begins to miss it or not.

Lately my thoughts have been regarding my thoughts and how my thoughts about things make me think that I may not be evil but I’m certainly not saintly. However, I’m not sure where on that line I should place my dot.

Certainly there are times when the dot would land securely on the evil side of things and at other times squarely on the goodie two shoes side of things. I know that I am not anywhere near a goodie two shoes but I have had moments that the tarnish on the halo was cleaned enough for the light to be seen.

However I’m not really sure why I’m concerned about it all because while I may have some thoughts that might make a four dollar whore blush they are really just thoughts and aren’t really ever going to spring to life.

In the less about me news Doodle has a new car and Stuntboy isn’t old enough to drive but is taller than Doodle, that counts for sometime right. Oh and doodle has said she will take care of this car and give it to him when he is older. I’m writing this so there is some proof that it has actually been said. That said Doodle isn’t likely to say later that she didn’t say that in fact she will probably remind us both that she said it.

More about me news, ever notice how two people can see something and be on opposite ends of how they feel about it. Recently I saw something and thought wow that’s pretty cool but didn’t say anything about it, then someone else saw the same thing and thought oh that is certainly not something I wanted to see and I know they thought this because they said they didn’t want to see it.

There is more but I have to not speak of these things because of pillar 4 and the eight

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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What about moose and squirrel

So yesterday morning I was watching a story about international dating sites or aka mail order brides as Mr. Lauer referred to them. He even suggested that it was essentially prostitution and said prostitution as part of the interview. The big question that he had was why is this popular at all and why is it growing in popularity, especially in the United States and in other similar capitalist cultures.

I don’t like the terms westernized and industrial nations because they refer to different ideas but the thing is socially capitalism / materialism does shape our attitudes and behaviors.

Now I do feel I must insert a disclaimer at this point in the blog, the ideas expressed in this issue are not about anyone specific that I know. So to anyone reading this that I personally know if your thoughts begin to turn toward that rat bastard is talking about me here, you are reading far too much into this and these are not my opinions about you. If I don’t know you and you are drawing similarities about what I’m saying well it is my opinion and I am allowed to have an opinion and your opinion is yours and you are allowed to have yours too.

Anyway moving on. Why are international dating sites gaining in popularity. One more disclaimer the sites seem to be mainly women seeking men I don’t know if there are male sites where women can go to find husbands from an international dating site because they were only talking about the ones were women are seeking relationships And I didn’t look into it from that point of view.

So Why is this gaining in popularity Mr. Lauer asked. My first thought was that probably because these women probably haven’t been raised in a me, me, me, me, me, culture. Now I know there are a lot of women right here in the good ol’ US of A who are not all me, me, me 24/7/365. There are a lot of them though.

There are also a lot of Jackass men too but mainly all these jackasses are married. Mainly because they don’t much care what you do as long as its’ not mucking up what they want to do.

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a woman say she is so tired of dating this jackass or being married to that jackass I would have a shit ton of dollars.

I usually ask this question, how is this person really that different from when you met them the first time. 99% of the time the person is exactly the same. Yeah it’s not a very endearing question but I haven’t ever been slapped for asking the question, yet.

So mainly the two guys they showed in this interview and others I’ve seen on the topic were not unattractive, they had stable jobs, they were clear in what they wanted and seemed to be pretty stable. They weren’t terribly exciting though. How bad a thing is that? A serious significant other that is dependable, home a lot of the time, financially responsible, gainfully employed etc.

I also know a lot of guys like this not terribly exciting but have been burned, time and time again by women who are all about me.

Sure maybe the problem with them is that the choose the wrong type of woman, That could be too. However, I just see a lot of woman picking the jerk face, ass-bite over the really nice guys they know.

Here is a little test think about your girlfriends who are dating or married to a jerk/jackass/bag of hammers guy. Have your person in mind. Does she have a friend who is crushing on her and letting them know they are interested and that girlfriend is completely unaware of him. In fact this girl probably bares all her agony about the jerk she is seeing to his guy. Right you know him. Awesome guy. A little socially inept but a good, stable, guy.

His last girl friend? Oh yeah she dumped him for some tool-bag with a criminal record, because of the excuse de-jour of the latest issue of what ever ‘zine she happened to be reading.

Now is the fairy tale romance going to be found on the international dating scene. Probably not all of the time but I’ll bet that these relationships last more then one date because of insert some dumbass shallow reason not to date someone. These people are more likely than not going to be searching for serious commitment you don’t move out of your country on a whim, out of town sure. Leaving everything you know, everyone you know, every place that is familiar to something large an unknown that takes something more real than I won’t consider even going on a date with someone if they aren’t the right height. ??? WTF

So I just think mainly we are a very hedonistic society and we are shallow and we are in too big a rush to have romantic bliss wiggle up on our laps and wink and have that happy ending with out the work.

Good relationships take work, they take some seriousness, they too take time.

Oh but invisible don you are standing up there pretty high on a moral soapbox there why not point that critical point of view at yourself.

I know I’m not perfect, I want the fairy tale but I know it takes work. I also know I have a pretty big wall of defensiveness built up with all the baggage I have from failed relationships. Trust issues, and all that. I know. I’m working on that and I’m also a tad hedonistic and selfish. I like things my way and all of that. So yeah I am a big stumbling block in my own thing. However I’m not looking on the international dating scene. Not that is far and beyond what I find attractive because an eastern European / Russian accent is like a drug, even Natasha asking Boris, what about moose and squirrel is a bit of a turn on, maybe not as raspy.

One of the women made a very, I thought, excellent argument for international sites. We don’t give a second thought if someone from the east coast meets someone from the west coast why the really different point of view over a relationship that is essentially not much further away.

I don’t know my thoughts are that we are becoming to much me and not enough we in our thoughts about relationships and I think people raised in much less materialistic social systems are more we than me in a relationship.

I don’t mean abandon yourself but teamwork, cooperation and partnership are keys to success in relationships. And compromise isn’t a bad word but without a less me and more we attitude one person will become a shadow in the life of the other person.

Anyway that was my initial reaction to this topic and the more I think about it why does it matter if two people are willing to work to be together where they are from when that relationship starts.


That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

Punishment is a reward...right?

Several things are going on now, to many to mention. However top on the list is that the spring semester started and my class has resumed once again. That means I have a really long working day on Tuesdays and less time for playing and writing. I was planning on writing about something else but I don’t have the time to really do it the way I want so I’ll save it for later.

So in the mean time a final test before the revival of the invisible army, actually it is just to see how things look.


Invisible Army Mission January 2011 coming soon


A quick review is you are curious, the invisible army are my minions, they are or are not necessarily evil. The minions do my biding in my quest to take over the world … muhahahaha…


Ok not really the members of the invisible army are just readers who may or may not be evil it’s not required and if you don’t like to be call minion you can pick any other moniker that you like, but as the invisible army is my army I’ll usually just refer to the corps of members as minions.

The invisible army (IA) is a completely voluntary group doing missions that I think will be fun for you and for me. You only have to complete the missions you want to complete and there is no penalty for not completing mission. There isn’t really any reward but the fun but fun like punishment is it’s own reward.

Oh you won’t have to break the law to complete any mission and if you are breaking the law to complete a mission then you are probably doing the mission incorrectly

I know it’s a lot of build up for something that isn’t really all that uber exciting but they can be really fun.

Unrelated to anything is that I’ll be changing the format around for the next few entries, issues, trying out some old things new things and stuff so if you like something in one of the issues let me know in the comments.

Yeah the issues do sometimes tend to be a little heavy on the me stuff but it’s my blog so I get to be a little heavy on the me stuff.

In other news

I have purple kool-aid , yeah the yummiest kool-aid. The letters for the flavor spell grape but grapes don’t taste like this so it’s purple.

Related to why it is called purple kool-aid is that Doodle was drinking the mystery kool-aid once, if you don’t remember mystery kool-aid it was a pack of kool-aid you made that didn’t really have a color other than a milky white but tasted like other flavors without the color. So I made a batch of it once and gave a cup to Doodle and I asked what does it taste like?

She said, it tastes purple.

So the grape kool-aid is now purple flavor

Still in other news

Um… Ke$ha … I’m not really sure why I really like her but I have to admit that I really do. I know very sad, but sing along with her all the time …oh yeah of course I does but I don’t has geezus on mah neck-kah-lace … she just talkin’ truth …she’s all slick and sexified …DJ just turn up … (techno beat)

Ok I’ll stop… because your love is mah… ok really I’ll stop now

Triple-ly in other news

My gamer tag on PS3 is invisible don and I play MAG

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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I don't even own a yellow shirt so why am I lying on my back muttering ugh

So the other night I had a very strange dream, I’ll not go into the details of the dream mainly because I’m not going to share that part of it but I will say. Wow and probably not why you think wow.

I am not sure if given the opportunity while awake I would do what I did in the dream but I can’t say that I wouldn’t either.

I’ve always had a love hate relationship with my dreams. I don’t think I’m a medium or clairvoyant or anything like that. I don’t remember most of my dreams. However the ones I do are one - very, very, bizarre, two - very, very, disturbing or three - they come true.

Now you are probably thinking having dreams come true would be awesome. Not really

The not remember thing is partly because I don’t want to remember them and that I don’t try to remember them because too many times they are that disturbing.

This current dream was in the first category of the very, very bizarre. The curious part of me would not mind having the opportunity, the rest of me wonders what the hell that means about the corners of my psyche that I don’t let out to play anymore.

That part of me isn’t really irresponsible but it does drink a little too much and is certainly a bit too impulsive.

In other news



This is a test, you may now continue with the issue

Still in other news

I was wondering why things were so unsettling the other day, I found out and I just don’t get how someone can be so …argh!

Triple-ly in other news

Eating ice cream on really cold days makes you colder

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Do you get a letter if you are on the no fly list?

How many times do we find ourselves in the middle of a conversation thinking something far and beyond what is being said. The trouble there is not getting too carried away into your own thoughts and losing track of what is being said.

Then too there is the trap of the slip saying what you are thinking and not talking about what is really being said. You’ll either sound like a lunatic or you’ll let something about what your are actually thinking about slip out or you’ll just say something that lets the other person know you are not really listening to what they have to say.

Yeah,… sure… right…ok. Then they get all bent about how you are some insensitive lunk head.

However I try to stay focused on what is being said and listening. Because a conversation is actually more about listening than it is about talking when it is your turn. The tricky part comes in determining what the other person actually wants to hear.

Do they really want your honest opinion or do they really just want you to agree with them. There are more things that could be expected as a response but you really can’t address every issue completely or nothing would ever get done. That can be tricky even if you don’t agree with someone is it sometimes better just to agree for the sake of peace or it is it better to stand your ground for piece of mind.

Mostly the things we stand our ground on are things we can be a bit more flexible about for the sake of peace however the trick there is to be sure you are only being flexible and not on your way to becoming a doormat.

Talking to people shouldn’t be so complicated

Solving problems shouldn’t be so convoluted

Do you wonder how is it that we got to this point, by we I mean me.

One conversation at a time when you could have said something different or should the other person have heard it differently. Still there is a shadow in the room


In other news

Very soon

Still in other news

The spider is still peering out into the Ethernet, longing and desire and something else and a box of ashes is buried in the ice

Triple-ly in other news

Maybe we need a new format this is getting a bit too complicated to keep up with on a daily basis I have trouble getting one thought to paper let alone three and I have no idea where the first one is coming from most of the time.

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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We are doing this for your own good, don't pay attention to the man behind me with the gun...

If you haven’t heard this yet there is a publisher who has already “edited” the text of two of Mark Twain’s books. The idea of pre emptive censorship is the justification of going through Mark Twain’s books Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and removing two offending words from the text, granted that two words that they are removing from the text are slurs against Blacks and Native Americans.

However, the words are reflective of attitudes and beliefs of the day and that even in that time there were those who did not hold those ideals and could change if they did hold them. Without the words the really important idea that racism and hatred can be overcome is lost.

The idea that we need to save these classic works from being removed from the shelves of our libraries because people only see the offensive words out of context is a notable and worthy idea. However censoring them in anyway is the wrong way to save these books or any other book for that matter. Yes there will be those who read these books in their original state and will use those words in a hurtful ways. The books aren’t the cause of the hate. So hiding the harmful words and removing them from the printed world doesn’t take away the hate behind it. That we teach hate and mistrust and exploit the difference of one another is the real problem. These books do show that mindless hatred and bias can be overcome but not without showing or admitting that the problem exists.
What are we teaching by removing words as being taboo, that certain things are so offensive that we can’t talk about them? Or worse that these things don’t exist and aren’t really problems. This does lead to more intimidation and promotes the words into a higher level of hatred that they will not be said except in cases of extreme anger.

Most of us can look just beneath the surface of our society and see that the real problems still exist, and that as much progress that has been made in the practice of equality of all persons regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, etc. there is still a 100 times more progress that remains to be made. Hatred for our fellow man is alive and well just under the surface we just don’t talk about it. Segregation exists but it isn’t a government practice any more it is still a very active social one though.

The idea of removing words from a book to keep them on the selves is the slope that once done what word is next? Then what topics and ideas are then removed from the books to keep them on the shelves. Pre emptive censorship is just censorship under a different flag and stifles creativity and progress. This will not solve the problems that this hopes to address.

As good as the intentions are behind this effort this is not a good idea and should not be done. And by not a good idea I mean it is a very bad idea, incredibly bad about as bad an idea that could be thought of to address the issue they are trying to prevent. In fact preemptive censorship does the job for the censorship people gives them firmer ground to stand and eroding the principles of free speech in spoken and written form.

I intentionally left the two words out of this writing because I don’t use them in my speech and I do actively discourage their use by anyone who says them regardless of who says the word or why they are saying them. That is the more important thing that the words exist and we have to actively teach people that the use of these words and the ideas behind them are not productive to good relationships and stable societies. Taking and active stance of admitting the problem exists and teaching people to stand up to those who practice any form of bigotry there might eventually be a in road to really reducing the hate we harbor for our fellow humans. We won’t achieve it by sweeping it under the rug or preemptively censoring or outright banning books that hold words or ideas that we don’t agree with

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I really should be careful about things I see the stairs and I’m not sure which way they are going

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Well there would be still other news if could get the other news out of my head but I can’t get it out of my head. I really can’t speak more to this at all because well it would be bad …yup really bad… I really should be able to be …well different but I’ll stop because I probably just should … Yup shut the hell up Don ok I will … but… Yeah we know … , agony, woe and despair .. Shut up will you… ok I will stop picking on me you’re the one who started all of this …oh sure blame me for your… yeah, there will be more later I’m sure but I’m stopping now

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You want me to do what in that box? Right... are you sure this isn't punked?

Confession. Ingrained in my way of thinking as much as is the perspective of why certain things are sin. Wrong or sinful. One could say that I am very tainted by the color of sin but change the tint and they aren’t really all the harmful and no one was wronged.

So are these things truly sin or are they really just important social controls to keep the masses in line. The latter is important and what better way to keep the masses in line than to keep them fearful of an immortality that you must shed a mortal frame to get to and then there is no escape from the existence of that state of being. Pretty steep ante and if you’ve wager incorrectly well then there is a penalty that is … well played up on the unpleasant scale a good little bit.

Once these ideas are ingrained into your psyche they are fairly difficult to shake and who really has the brass huevos to put that sort of thing on the betting table. Certainly there are those who say that things are this way or that I don’t hold to the beliefs I was socialized under. But is there a lingering doubtful thought that you could be wrong?

I had a confessor recently not a cleric of any denomination but someone I could tell my “sins” mainly because I knew they were telling me their “sins” as well. Now in that no one was harmed I mean in the primary there is that secondary level those not directly involved then is it really sin or merely a breach of trust.

Of course there is the argument that these are merely attempts to justify not living a life without sin but finding arguments to lessen actions as not being sinful. Place your bets.

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Leaving things to the imagination is really related to the first thing when does the theatre of the mind become the stair way to damnation? If I could…just …

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My cyber spider is lonely but is ever watchful for the incoming posts, while the piano keys dance under the nimble fingers of grace and I’m lost in the wonder of my hopes.

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Invisible army will be reactivated soon… be watchful this could be exciting or at the very least a wee bit of harmless fun.

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I may watch too many movies

How sad is my life? Well in the scheme of things not so much but in other ways pretty bad, that or I’m very easily entertained.

I have a few very favorite movies. Currently my favorite movie to watch falling asleep is the dark knight. I can actually pick the window which the thieves blow out in the opening scene most of the time… yeah sad… the even sadder bit is when I get it exactly right I get all happy… very sad indeed. That the high point of my day can be picking exploding glass.

I really do like the movie a lot. Heath Ledger was incredible as The Joker his parts of the movie never get old just so well done I’m really amazed at his performance.

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Still considering reviving the invisible army. Hmmm.

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Macaulay Culkin was dating Mila Kunis until recently for like eight years. I’m not sure why I didn’t know this but at least she never dated Ashton. I’ve liked some of the things Macaulay has done in his adult career but it hasn’t been much. He should probably do more but I’m sure that whole home alone thing is very hard to live down.

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Evil french guy and the new hotness and I don't mean Will Smith

Went to see the movie Black Swan the other day, it was fantastic and recommend that anyone wanting to see it should see it. My only critique of the film is more a critique of our writing or really the lack of writing today and this wasn’t a realization I would have made without an unexpected stimuli.

The stimuli was an older woman, not that sort of stimuli…geezus… She was in the theatre and left the film during a conversation between the characters Nina (Natalie Portman) and Thomas (Evil French Guy, I don’t know his name but he was the evil French guy in Oceans 12 and 13 and Derailed too).

Well she got up and left and did not come back and my thought at the time was that she left to leave because the character Thomas said Firetruck and by firetruck I don’t mean firetruck but the first and last three letters of firetruck. Most everyone else thought she left to go to the potty or whatever. The person I saw the movie with didn’t even notice her leaving yet she was sitting in front of us. She didn’t make a scene just got up and left right after the Thomas character said firetruck in a way that suggested that he might want to have firetruck then.

Maybe I don’t suspend disbelief enough to think I’m actually there watching the events unfold and become unaware that I am in a theatre watching a story surrounded by others. I just don’t trust other people enough not to be a bit aware of them on some level, especially in the dark. I don’t think I’m all super in tune to things either, because I’m not really all that uber observant most of the time when the lights are on

So either way I just knew she wasn’t coming back to the movie. I didn’t dwell on it then because the movie was good enough to really hold my attention but in thinking about it later could the character Thomas have gotten his point across effectively with Nina without saying firetruck.

I think so and I think it may have added only a few more minutes to the movie no more than five and perhaps raised an excellent film to a more than excellent film and would have made for some really good character development for Thomas which was really only hinted at to this point in the film. This is not the fault of any of the actors, its’ all driven by writers and I didn’t see this character as being as crass as to say hey wanna firetruck but he was definitely a lothario.

So my thoughts now had he been more erotic and subtle or even made with the innuendo this scene would have had a helluva lot more weight and given a better direction for others scenes later in the film. There would have been a lot of added depth too all of the characters actions in later scenes.

I think the lady would have still left the film but maybe would have waited until Lily and Nina were … ah… well it was more Lily doing things to Nina and with different camera angles could have raised things to NC-17 or even other ratings. I’m not going to rewrite the scene, well not any more than I already have in my head, but I think it could have been done with more style.

The point being that we are losing our fondness for dialogue in film and hitting people in the head rather than making them think just a little bit. I know I do sometimes need things to be wrapped up in a brick and tossed at my head for me to get them but I like it more without it being all spelled out directly.


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My third grader friend and I who are both not really in the third grade but we do laugh like third graders about, Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hawke both named Michael. Perhaps our hi-jinx are a little beyond the third grade. However they are likely to remain only on the third grade playground and not anywhere else. Mr. Hunt is wet and Mr. Hawke is like a rock. Mr. Hunt ran into Mr. Hawke. Mainly we don’t talk about Mr. Hawke because we both prefer to talk about Mr. Hunt. While I’ve seen Mr. Hawke I have not seen Mr. Hunt nor has Mr. Hunt seen Mr. Hawke but my friend has seen Mr. Hunt.

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Do you even own underwear? I’m not complaining just making an observation.

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resa-don't

Another year in the record books and a new one is on the annual path through the calendar. Time passing and resolutions are things that everyone seems to talk about at the turn of the old calendar to the new one.

Resolutions, I don’t make them and if you are long time reader you know this however if you are a new reader, I don’t make new year resolutions. Why you ask? Well simple because they are pointless and most people don’t bother keeping them, they have no intention of keeping them.

Wow those are very broad generalizations. Yes they are and I know there are probably those who do mean to keep them but they don’t. So my last resolution was not to make resolutions any more. So far so good.

However I think my problem with resolutions is deeper but wasn’t able to formulate the words until now. The focus is on a negative and look at the negative aspects. For example a resolution might be I smoke too much I need to quit. That is a negative statement about a negative thing and things that people don’t like.

I don’t smoke anymore so it wouldn’t be a change I want to make any longer. Then there is the rub change can be positive or it can be negative so simply saying I want to change something isn’t really much different.

We see resolutions as just bad things and being hard and insurmountable. Maybe semantics but success is all in how you look at things. Still with my new found look on the whole resolution thing doesn’t mean I’ll be making them again. If you want to change just make the change you want to make don’t wait for some date on a calendar to make a change you want to make. You don’t want to change if you are waiting and it gives you an excuse not to try.

The second thing is time passing. Time seems to go by more quickly as we age. However older people tend to count a minute slower than younger people. I think that when you are younger we look forward to things that are generally further off then when we are older.

It takes longer for the end of the school year to get here than the end of the week or hell the end of the day for that matter. As we get older we also think more about our mortality and we quit looking further down the road because it becomes less certain that well make it to goals if they are set too far into the future. Where younger people are more certain that they will be here longer and time seems to go by more slowly for them. I don’t know just a thought or three there.

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You are still in the pajama’s and I am not in my pajamas

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Red coats and grocery stores and my needing a better, well … not sure what exactly but disappointed


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